426 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
Bahram ‘Abiah, Jate Governor of Sind and Multan, the head 
of the deceased Governor.' Kishlu Khan’s death had occurred 
as the result of Muhammad ibn Tughlaq’s anger when he heard 
that this Governor had buried the skins of Bahadur and of 
Bahauddin Gushtasp on their reaching his hands, when the two 
skins stuffed with straw, were being sent round the Provinces 
as a warning to other would-be rebels. Bahaiuddin wasa nephew 
(sister’s son) to Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, and after the accession 
of Muhammad to the throne of Dehli, he refused to take the 
oath of allegiance and fled for refuge to the Rai of Kanbilah in 
the Deccan. He was finally caught, and on his being brought 
into Muhammad's presence, the Sultan ordered him to be 
skinned alive and his flesh to be made into a curry which was 
sent to his wife and children to eat.” From the fact that his 
flight to Southern India occurred in consequence of his not 
being willing to take the oath of allegiance, his death must have 
taken place fairly soon after Muhammad became Sultan of 
Dehli: but in view of the existence of coins of Bahadur dated 
728, I cannot agree with Defrémery and Sanguinetti’s accep- . 
tance (on the authority of Khondemir, the Persian author of a 
Universal History called Habibu-s-Siyar, who died in 1534 
A.D.) of the end of 727 as the date of Kishlu Khan’s death.’ 
Badaoni, on the other hand, gives+ the date of Gushtasp’s 
breaking out into rebellion as the end of 727, and Ranking 
notes that in this he is supported by the Bombay text of 
Ferishtah (though Briggs in his translation makes Ferishtah 
postpone it to the impossible date of 739). If therefore Badaoni 
and Ferishtah are correct, this would point to some time in 728 
(or even 729, if one considers Ibn Batiitah’s account of Gush- 
tasp’s subsequent adventures in Southern India).’ In view of 
the fact already mentioned that both Gushtasp’s skin and that 
of Bahadur arrived together at Multan, we may finally conclude 
that the death of Ghiyasuddin Bahadur took place either 
towards the close of 728 or early in 729. 
Thus ended, in abject ignominy, the line of Balbani kings 
of Bengal. The apparent cessation of Imperial coinage in 
Bengal in, or shortly after, 735 points to a sudden outbreak of 
internal trouble ; and though, as we shall see in the next section 
of this paper, historians record that Muhammad’s Governors 
continued in power for some years longer, they were ultimately 
replaced, after a period of anarchy, by independent Kings, and 
1 Idem, p. 324. 
2 Idem, IIT, p. 321. 
3 Op cit., III, Prefaco, p. XX. 
+ Ranking’s translation, I, p. 304. # 
Joni goes o y ‘‘ After that, Malik Bahram Iba, the 
Muhammad ibn Tughlaq had to suppress in person. All this agrees 
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perfectly with Ibn Batiitah’s account of the rising of Kishlu Khan. 

